This book contains a wonderful collection of some of Mark Twain's finest writings, including: [1601 [ In Defence of Harriet Shelley [ Is Shakespeare Dead? [ How to Tell a Story [ Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again

'Quoth the Raven nevermore'
The author of this book-Charles Cory was an enigma. He is principally known for his expertise and authorship on ornithology. Cory's Shearwater is named after him. He was a golfer at Olympic level. So his sole foray into the world of supernatural fiction is something of an oddity. Perhaps, therefore it is fitting that Cory has written a superb collection of eighteen ghostly and weird stories to chill and thrill the avid enthusiast of supernatural fiction. Within its pages the reader will find mummies, ghosts and ghouls-many with a South and North American pre-Colombian flavour. Available in soft cover and hard cover with dust jacket for collectors.

This story is about two German Baronesses that traveled across the world teaching life lessons to those children and adults who needed the most help and for those that needed to be taught a lesson. The Baronesses, Emma and Natasha Von Lekton did not travel traditionally by car, or airplane, or train, or by bus. Instead, they are transported along with the magnificent castle where they reside to a location in the world where they are needed most. Baroness Emma Von Lekton is a very kind, innocent and compassionate teacher. Her lessons are meant for the students who are children. Her twin sister, Baroness Natasha Von Lekton, is very mischievous. She likes to play pranks on her sister and her students. Fortunately, the students she teaches are adults. There are some secrets that the Baronesses withhold until the end of the story, and some, they withhold until the next lessons. The students that needed the Baronesses help this time are a father and his son. The father's name is Nicholas Botticelli, and his son name is Vinnie. Nicholas and Vinnie live in a small town in Connecticut called Beacon Falls. Connecticut is one of fifty states in the United States. The lessons that the Baronesses teach are not taught from a book, but rather they are taught through magical adventures that their students must take. The lessons that the Baronesses teach are wholesome with benefits for all readers. This book is meant for older children, teens, and young adults. However, those adult readers who like to read fantasies about magical adventures will find this series a delight.

Revelations, A Rhyme and a Reason is aptly named. For each rhyme in this collection, there is an introductory story which explains a little bit about what was going on in the author's life at the time it was written and a reason why each particular poem was written. These stories provide clarity to the poems and makes for a truly unique reading experiance. Photographic interpretations accompany each poem. A beautiful gift book!

A selection of short stories and poems together with the novella 'Black Masks'.

Time travel and Einstein, mind travel and Martians, change, lost sons, the parts business, the business of living cleanly, and Ms. Gage and The Sunset Program - these are all themes in this second collection of short stories by Tom Farley. Written primarily for a Catholic audience, these stories will inspire and entertain and appeal to a variety of Christian readers.

Three years after the publication of his much-heralded, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "The Known World," Edward P. Jones returned with an elegiac, luminous masterpiece, "All Aunt Hagar's Children." In these fourteen sweeping and sublime stories, Jones resurrects the minor characters in his first award-winning story collection, "Lost in the City." The result is vintage Jones: powerful, magisterial tales that showcase his ability to probe the complexities and tenaciousness of the human spirit.

"All Aunt Hagar's Children" is filled with people who call Washington, D.C., home. Yet it is the city's ordinary citizens, not its power brokers, who most concern Jones. Here, everyday people who thought the values of the South would sustain them in the North find "that the cohesion born and nurtured in the south would be but memory in less than two generations."

This collection of short stories takes its title from one of the stories contained in it: 'The Protectors'. All stories are basically romantic in nature, but they are not simple love stories. Their themes have all the colours, and their myriad shades, to afford you a panoramic view of the world we live in.

The first story, for example, is that of a boy whose rebellious nature, not accepting the norms of a corrupt society, struggles to achieve a job on the basis of his qualification, and not on the recommendation of a friend. Another story deals in defence of the motherland from the vicious attack of a rival force. Then there is a story which gives a graphic picture of a poverty-stricken housing scheme where women, forgetting about their self-respect, stoop so low as to adopt a life style, both execrable and pitiable... but there are women and there are women

In brief, the book touches on unemployment, indignity of a religious family, and inheritance inciting to murder. A story each describes the horrendous custom of doing away with female foetuses, the ugly face of feudalism, and foundering efforts of a courtesan to escape to a righteous life. Last but not least is the story of educated youth, who for want of any reasonable job, resort to robbery.

The book takes you along on a journey which unravels a picture of unspeakable misery some people are subjected to. One would feel the milk of human kindness is drying up fast

One could read these stories with a view to killing time, but if they pause and think... well, that is exactly what these stories are aimed at.

Red Morgan, Po Hillen, and the gang are reaching the end of their school days. The now infamous class of 3C is about to be released on an unsuspecting world. They may be older, but their exploits continue to be as crazy as ever in the 1960s and 1970s. In this third book in the series, Anto Falsoni continues to act as the bookie for the many schemes the gang dreams up-and somehow always comes out on the winning side. After interviews during the school year, most of the gang is recruited to complete a three-month course in Dublin with a company intending to open a factory in Newry. Living together in the big city leads to many hilarious situations both at work and at home. Their adventures, if anything, rival their school days. It was just a short time ago when the boys would only talk about football; now the conversation has turned to plans of purchasing engagement rings. Even at this stage of their lives, the banter and teasing never stops as they move through life at a breathtaking pace that embraced chaos with what appeared to be a natural ethos.

Some of the Angels in this book are of the canine variety, and a good-sized handful are human. The rest are teen-aged jokers, forgetful poets, interior designers, Vermont farmers, and a couple of vicious interlopers from another world. You may even know some of them.

Merton G. Yahn explores the world of short stories by introducing his readers to various story lines and taking them on a rollercoaster ride of emotions without insulting the intelligence with graphic vulgarity or explicit sex. No two stories are alike and the individual endings may be more of a surprise than one might expect. All of his short stories were written in the here and now with completely believable characters that may cause his readers, both young and old, to reflect on memories of their own past. Included are the dreams of some, the judgments of others, the disoriented life after the death of loved ones, and so much more.